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Conrad’s life, like all our lives, is full of secrets. Many of those secrets, as we would expect, relate to his emotional life. In the 85 years since his death, many of the details of Conrad’s life have been uncovered – through the exemplary researches of Hans van Marle, who showed generations of Conrad scholars how much information could be extracted from archives; through the investigations involved in the editing of the Collected Letters; and through the labours of Conrad’s various biographers. However, though much has been uncovered, much still remains in darkness.
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Hampson, R. (2012). Introduction. In: Conrad’s Secrets. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137264671_1
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